Re: Linux Mail Client
Phillip Deackes wrote:
>
> Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hate to tell you but fetchmail is not more elegant. In fact, I
> > find it
> > quite archaic. I don't know about you, but there is something about
> > pulling 2
> > accounts worth of mail, dumping them into a single local account and
> > then have
> > to filter it all out /and/ have to tell the mail client to use x
> > account in y
> > situation but not z that is quite inelegant.
>
> No, no, no!!! <hitting head against nearest wall>
>
> On my machine fetchmail fetches all mail from my ISP and hands it on to
> Exim which, in turn, distributes it to users and mailfolders. The mail
> so distributed is readable by any email app (MUA) because it is in a
> standard form. That is neat. The 'Windows' solution is to have the email
> app do the downloading. It is then filed away in a format unique to that
> particular application. That is not neat. I don't understand what you
> are saying about dumping the mail into a single local account. My system
> collects mail for three different addresses and as soon as the mail is
> received Exim delivers it to the appropriate user. Maybe you are not
> using a MTA/MDA like Exim.
>
> All I do to instigate this is click one icon (I can have it happen
> automatically if I wish). Friends who use Windows are amazed at how
> elegant it is and how another user can log on and access their mail
> only. They can set up their own .forward file to sort mail into their
> choice of folders.
>
> I build computers as a side line, and I usually install Windows 98. Have
> you tried setting Windows up in an easy-to-use form which allows a
> family to have an email address each from the same ISP and only
> see/download their own emails, making sure the correct address is shown
> in the 'from' header? Outlook allows the use of 'accounts' but it is
> still a nightmare to set up. If any user downloads mail it ends up in
> the Inbox (or other folder) visible to the user who instigated the
> download. Maybe I have not understood correctly the complexities of
> setting up Outlook . . . .
>
> --
> Phillip Deackes
Perhaps this isn't the time or place to ask, but what about using IMAP
instead of POP (on "client" machines, like a family computer, not
"servers")? Unless you need to be disconnected from your email server
(which I realize is needed in some situations) or have a tendency to
exceed your server quota, this allows you to manipulate the mail
directly on the server, without downloading it to your local box. Then,
when you go to a different computer that's configured, you can still get
to your mail because it's still on the server instead of downloaded on
your first computer.
I use IMAP on my office computer and home computer. Anything I want to
keep I transfer to folders on one of the local computers. But this
allows me to read my Inbox from anywhere I can setup an IMAP client.
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